quotation
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Mr. Gottlieb, a professor of history at Bentley University, produces nearly 300 pages on the topic without a trace of humor, except in quotation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Bucket shop patrons were positioned heavily for Amalgamated to rise, so the proprietors shorted the stock “to establish as low a quotation as possible,” the Journal wrote.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Others speculated that, due to Fennell’s penchant for audience provocation, the quotation marks were an Easter egg indicating that her take on Brontë’s novel would be far from your great-great-grandmother’s “Wuthering Heights.”
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
How very fitting that the habitually plugged-in crowd tried to make sense of those quotation marks surrounding Fennell’s title.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
Second, the quotation above gives a true flavour of Galileo’s style and personality.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing quotation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Argumentative Writing
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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